At Briarwood School for Girls

Name: At Briarwood School for Girls
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Michael Knight
ISBN: 9781980034148

Author: Michael Knight

Narrator: Susan Bennett

Unabridged: 6 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/02/2019

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

It's 1994 and Lenore Littlefield is a junior at Briarwood School for Girls. She plays basketball. She hates her roommate. History is her favorite subject. She has told no one that she's pregnant. Everything, in other words, is under control. Meanwhile, Disney has announced plans to build a new theme park just up the road, a "Technicolor simulacrum of American History" right in the middle of one of the most history-rich regions of the country. If successful, the development will forever alter the character of Prince William County, VA, and have unfore-seeable consequences for the school. When the threat of the theme park begins to intrude on the lives of the faculty and students at Briarwood, secrets will be revealed and unexpected alliances will form. Lenore must decide who she can trust?will it be a middle-aged history teacher struggling to find purpose in his humdrum life? A lonely basketball coach tasked with directing the school play? A reclusive playwright still grappling with her own Briarwood legacy? Or a teenage ghost equally adept at communicating with the living via telephone or Ouija board? Following a cast of memorable characters as they reckon with questions about fate, history, and the possibility of happiness, about our responsibilities to each other and to ourselves, At Briarwood School for Girls is a stunning and inventive new work from a master storyteller.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kaitie on February 04, 2019

Those who read this book and didn't like it must have been going in with very odd expectations - because you need to understand that this is NOT a coming-of-age, YA ghost story. This is a literary fiction about a pregnant teenager, her depression, and how the adults in her life both affect her for t......more

Goodreads review by Lolly K Dandeneau on February 27, 2019

via my blog: [URL not allowed] "We’ll ask the Ouija board,” she said. “You’re kidding.” “Do not mock that which you do not understand.” If all boarding schools are haunted, well it seems fitting characters in the novel will channel them with a Ouija board. Lenore Littlefield, one......more

Goodreads review by Bandit on December 15, 2018

When described as an all girl boarding school with a resident ghost on premises, the book has a certain gothic promise. But it doesn’t play out that way. It’s more of a straight forward drama featuring the students of Briarwood (past and present) and their teachers set against the backdrop of a pecu......more

Goodreads review by Megan on April 24, 2019

Thank you so much to Grove Atlantic and NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. I was immediately drawn to this story as I love any book with a boarding school as its location and add in the creepy ghost aspect, I was sold. Even though the story is r......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on November 16, 2019

*thank you to Netgalley, Michael Knight and Grove Atlantic for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review* 2 stars I made it to the end!!!! Phew because I didn't think I could manage it. I should have loved this! It sounded exactly like what I'd enjoy but from the very beginning I couldn't s......more